International student work exhibition for the Dept of Architecture in the Visions2009 festival, Florence.

Production of MyTube and the interactive exhibition material
Team: E. Gavrilou, I.Lycourioti, V.Bourdakis and K.Paniyiris

MYTUBE is a medium for seeing images.
The making of MYTUBE included reminiscences and parts of a camera obscura, of the glass prints of early photography, of the dark room for developing images; bits and pieces of the experimental laboratories in the history of art, where images were conceived and projected to challenge reality. MYTUBE projects on the wall digital images, which were produced through the use of software. Thus it transverses and turns our gaze from the lucid digital desktop to the understanding of its making.

MYTUBE, at the same time, is a designed object and a result of actions and decisions taken through the use of all grasped media. Recycled lenses, metal exhaust tubes have been manually assembled, while led lamps and transparent surfaces for projection have been digitally manufactured.

Both the study and the practice of architecture involve, fundamentally, not only the training of different techniques, but the cognitive step which leads to the making of images, to the experience of objects and space, beyond the constraints imposed by any medium.

We strongly believe that architecture is an intellectual practice where all available media contribute by bringing into the surface not only the scientific properties involved but different types of concepts; Instead of carelessly substituting one medium for another one can look carefully for subtle differences across media, fundamentally attached to the dense and multiple character of the medium of architectural space.